I miss contact sheets. I miss those grids of small photos that show you exactly what’s on a roll of developed film. I miss them so much that now, when I take digital pictures, I don’t delete any: I ...

Those beautiful magazine portraits of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are usually accepted at face value. But the perfect cover photo is usually the product of much trial and error; it's one of dozens of ...

Thumbnail me is a free and open-source software to create thumbnail sheets from videos on Windows. You just have to import a video and set up some configurations and this software will automatically ...

Leopard’s Quick Look is—in my opinion—one of OS X 10.5’s more useful features. I use it extensively to peek into files I think I want to open, to display a single image or a number of images, and to ...

When it came to movie publicity in the 1920s and ’30s, photographers used to stage glamour portraits using large, mounted cameras. In the ’50s, as studios dissolved their in-house photography ...

Reader Ashley Williamson (who really should consider licensing his or her name to Harlequin Romance, LLC.) is dismayed by the limitations of iPhoto’s contact sheet capabilities. Specifically: I am a ...

Bruno Barbey’s shot of protesters clashing with cops in Paris in 1968; David Seymour’s photograph of a young Sophia Loren posing on her apartment balcony in 1955; David Hurn’s shots of the Beatles at ...